<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2006/2/16, Aleksandar Milivojevic <<a href="mailto:alex@milivojevic.org">alex@milivojevic.org</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Quoting rado <<a href="mailto:rado@rivers-bend.com">rado@rivers-bend.com</a>>:<br>> What size do y'all recomend for the boot partition, 100mb?<br><br>If /boot partition starts on the first cylinder, and if your drive
<br>reports 255 heads and 63 sectors per track, this will give you BIOS<br>addressable range of aprox 8Gb (a little bit less):<br><br>255 heads * 63 cylinders * 512 bytes * 1024 cylinders<br><br>Anything above it, and your BIOS can't access it.
<br></blockquote><div> </div>Is this a problem related to the age of BIOS in question, or is it a plainly never-to-be-solved problem?<br clear="all"></div><br>-- <br>Eduardo Grosclaude<br>Universidad Nacional del Comahue<br>
Neuquen, Argentina